Captain Kiddie's Comfort Carnival

[vovat]

Hey, it's time for another Simpsons episode review! Don't worry; this is likely to be the last one for a while, since they're showing reruns in the next two weeks. But anyway, I actually quite liked this most recent one. Nelson as Columbo was great (not that I've ever actually watched Columbo, but it was still funny). I appreciated the old clips in the retrospective on Martin, and we got the first appearance of the Happy Little Elves in some time. The subplot contained some good riffs on fad diets and hidden-camera TV shows. Homer's phone call to the rack of lamb might have been taking the cheating analogy a little too far, but eh, I guess it worked in context.

So, three pretty good episodes following two fairly lousy ones. Is this a return to form for the show, or is it going to continue zigzagging in quality? Only time will tell, and Time tends not to talk much. I'm betting on the zigzag thing, though.

Comments

[revme.livejournal.com]

I did like that one, but I am a fan of Columbo, too. (You should watch Columbo! It's good!) I didn't realize that was a rack of lamb -- I thought it was shwarma meat! But then I'm watching on a snowy reception where I miss some of the visual gags.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Homer did say that it was lamb, but I could be wrong about the "rack" identification. Does shwarma also contain lamb?

[revme.livejournal.com]

Actually, yeah -- it's a mix of beef and lamb, so that might be it, but I think you're right. Through the snow, it looked like one of those rotating thingies that has the big shwarma loaf you see at Gyro places.

[kristenjarrod.livejournal.com]

I liked the bell pepper thing at the beginning. When I wrote on the DVD label that episode of Simpsons I recorded I put "Simpsons : Bell Pepper".

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Are bell peppers actually being promoted as a good diet food nowadays, or was that just a bit of Simpsonian randomness?

[kristenjarrod.livejournal.com]

Well, its more of a back in the day thing with the Scarsdale diet. I believe with that diet people ate a lot of green peppers.